Sustainable Places

Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis

David Adamson, Lorena Axinte, Mark Lang, Terry Marsden (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-11794-2 (ISBN)

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At the intersection of environmental sustainability, economic and social disintegration and regeneration, this book offers a new engaged methodology and approach that problematizes spatial and social inequality, but also offers a way forward for local communities as the testbed for sustainability.

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of ‘Deep Place’ case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green ‘new deal’ and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of ‘regenerative collectivism’ to overcome these crises.

This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.

David Adamson is an Honorary Professor at the College of Health, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, UK. Lorena Axinte is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. Mark Lang is an Honorary University Associate at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK. Terry Marsden is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

Part One

1. Global crisis: our moment of reckoning

2. Green Deals and a new economic settlement

3. Place and social structure

4. Environment and place: understanding the socio-natural relations of the Anthropocene

5. The cultural place

6. Deep Place: from concepts to praxis

Part Two

7. Understanding places: introducing Deep Place

8. Case studies: UK

9. Case studies: Australia and Vanuatu

10. Finding a regenerative social, economic, and political order

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-11794-X / 103211794X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-11794-2 / 9781032117942
Zustand	Neuware